Trump's friendship with Fox News founder Roger Ailes may have been his downfall in E. Jean Carroll trial

Tue, 05/09/2023 - 17:38

e jean carroll trump trial — Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan court house after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
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Donald Trump continues to deny knowing E. Jean Carroll, even after a jury found he sexually abused her.
He also denied being friends with Roger Ailes at the time he was Carroll's boss in the 1990s.
Yet Trump bantered with Ailes on his show in 1995 — casting doubt on Trump's credibility for jurors.

Donald Trump's long friendship with Roger Ailes may have doomed him as jurors weighed his credibility and ultimately found him of sexual abuse and defamation in E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit.